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Doreen Leggett Special to WickedLocal HARWICH At six-foot-four, Nick Nickerson has to duck when he opens the door to the studio of his Chatham Coastal Creations business, tucked nearby the Little League fields behind Harwich Cultural Center. Nickerson smiles as he introduces himself and explains he was running a bit late because he’d just got off the phone with a woman from Hopkinton; she wanted one of those scallop shell mirrors she had seen at a friend’s house in New Seabury, Mashpee. “She wants a medium oval one,” Nickerson said, scanning the walls of his studio, where he makes the shell mirrors and a big selection of shell ornaments. ....
Doreen Leggett CHATHAM Ken Baughman has fished since he was a kid and loves being on the water. The Falmouth resident, smart and determined, bought a second-hand motor, built his own boat and launched his career as a commercial fisherman this summer. It has been tough going. “It’s virtually impossible. You really have to come in as an apprentice,” he said. That may soon be a possibility as the Young Fishermen’s Development Act passed Congress this week. The act, modeled after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s successful Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program, creates the first federal program dedicated to training the next generation of commercial fishermen and includes an apprenticeship program to connect retiring fishermen and vessel owners with new and beginning fishermen. ....